Early European Miniature Books
Note: Each listing below has an LN or LND number; please include the book title andthis number when inquiring about or ordering a book. |
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 | Almanach auf das Jahr | 1837, C. F. Muller, Carlesruhe, 3/4" x 9/16", paper covers, early lithographic printing | LN
#10 | SOLD |
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| Évangile de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ Selon Saint Matthieu; after a version by J. F. Ostervald | 1900, Jean Enschede & Sons, Haarlem, 2 1/2" x 2", 52 pp., gilt cloth boards, set in 4 point brilliant type, Welsh/Richards bookplate | LN
#8 | SOLD |
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| Collection of Ancient Chinese Chops, A | 19th c?, 3 1/8" x 2", two volume set with ties and elegant black silk binding with paper labels and silk spines, housed in a brocaded silk case with ivory closure pins, text content unknown | LN
#42 | SOLD |
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| De Imitatione Christi; Thomas A Kempis | 1655, Nicolai Angeli Tinassil, Rome, 3 1/2" x 2", engraved title page, vellum binding. | LND
#17 | SOLD |
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| ȴrennes Mignones, Curieuses et Utiles | 1775, Chardon, Paris, 3 3/4" x 2 1/4", full red leather with gilt decoration with patterned paper slipcase, folding map at front and back | LN
#186 | $200.00 |
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| Figures Grotesques | c 1850, French, 1 3/8" x 2", 15 hand-colored topsy-turvy caricatures in a contemporary slipcase with printed label | LN
#9 | SOLD |
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| Flemish Portraits | c 1750, French, 1 3/4" x 1 1/8", 3 volumes in leather boards; portaits of important figures; ex Irene Winterstein collection | LN
#25 | SOLD |
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| Galileo A Madama Cristina di Lorena | 1897, Padova, 4" x 5 5/8", uncut sheet of 64 pages, original sheet of flies' eye type. "One of the most famous and popular miniature books in existance, probably even now the smallest complete work set from movable type. . .", the complete book had 206 pages, Spielmann 161 | LND
#33 | SOLD |
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| Guirlande de Roses | 1808, chez le Fuel Doreur, Paris, 2 1/8" x 1 3/8", 72 pp., gilt leather with matching slipcase, engraved titlepage and 12 full page plates | LN
#43 | SOLD |
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| La Filleule du Seigneur; Nodier, Charles | 1897, Pairault & Cie, Paris, 1 1/2" x 1 1/4", paper wrappers, uncut, Welsh 5296. | LND
#56 | SOLD |
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| Les Plaisirs de la Champagne | 1835, Marcilly, Paris, 2" x 2 5/8", 96 pp. green paper wrappers, later folio and slipcase, titlepage vignette plus 7 plates, Welch (5726), Spielman 416), Nauroy (pg 86), and Gamuchian (4133) | LN
#61 | SOLD |
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| Little Tales; Fenelon, Francois | c 1850, Guben, Germany, 3 1/4" x 2 1/4", three volumes, printed silk boards, English text and 5 colored plates, two are 7th editions, one a 9th | LN
#11 | $175.00 |
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| Maximes et Reflexions Morales; Duc de La'Rochefoucauld, Francois | 1827, De l'imprimerie de Didot le Jeune, Paris, 2 9/16" x 1 5/8", 96 pp., contemporary full leather with gilt and blind-stamped decoration, the first book printed in Didot's microscopic type, a superior copy | LN
#56 | $500.00 |
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| Miniature Manuscript Leaf | 15th century, France, 2 5/8" x 1 7/8", single leaf from a devotional work, French batarde script, 11 lines to a page, heading in red, intitial in blue | LND
#65 | $150.00 |
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| Paper Fragment | Greek text with Arabic text on verso | LND
#68 | $50.00 |
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| Perpetual Calendar | 3rd quarter 17th century, German, 1 5/8 dia, engraved silver with two movable silver dials retaining original gilt, with days of week and month, immovable feast days, astrological signs, etc. | LND
#69 | SOLD |
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| Petit Paroissien Romain | 1888, Zech et Fils, Paris, 4 1/8" x 2 3/4", full leather with gilt | LND
#110 | $35.00 |
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| Portvgallia | 1641, Ex officina Elzeviriana, 4 1/8" x 2 3/8", leather with marbled boards | LD
#115 | $350.00 |
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| Woorden Uit Den Bijbel | 1876, R.J. Schierbeek,Groningen, 27/8" x 2 3/8", original stamped cloth, text in Dutch, from the library of Irene Winterstein with label, Welsh 7223 and 7224. | LND
#81 | SOLD |
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